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As violent clashes between ICE agents and protesters escalate in Minneapolis, video is now circulating of a woman who is dragged from her car and hauled away by masked agents as she says she is a disabled autistic person trying to get to the doctor.
The confrontation with the woman occurred on Tuesday, reportedly just a couple of blocks away from where Renee Nicole Good was shot to death by an ICE agent last week.
In the Tuesday video, which has been posted to YouTube by Freedom News TV, the woman is shown sitting behind the wheel of her vehicle, which is stopped on the street with the driver’s side window rolled down.
Multiple masked ICE agents approach her car and tell her to move it, as another agent points in the direction he wants her to go. She responds, but it’s not clear what she says or who she’s speaking to.
That same agent then pulls on the driver’s side door handle, but is unable to open it. The woman then drives slightly forward and stops. Agents again approach the car, demanding she move.
At that point, another agent, located on the passenger side of the vehicle, breaks the window in the passenger door. Throughout the altercation, protesters and ice agents can be heard yelling at each other and at the woman. Some people who appear to be protesters, tell her to drive away.
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The vehicle is then approached by several agents, and one opens the back door on the driver’s side, while two others try to get into the driver’s side front door.
Eventually, one agent grabs the woman, pulls her from the car and forces her to the pavement. Two agents then pull her to her feet and she grips the window with one hand and yells: “I’ve been beat up by police before. I’m disabled, trying to go to the doctor up there, that’s why I couldn’t move.”
Another agent then comes to the driver’s side of the vehicle and uses a knife to cut away the woman’s seatbelt that was wrapped around her.
The woman again states that she’s an “autistic disabled person” and is trying to go to the doctor
At that point, a masked agent grabs her, turns her so she is facing the car, and two other agents join him to help force her arms behind her back. They handcuff her and carry her away as protesters continue to blow their whistles and yell at the agents.
Tear gas, flash bang grenades and pepper balls were also fired toward the protesters during the stand-off, according to multiple media reports.
CBC News requested comment from ICE about the incident, but did not hear back from the agency before publication.
Federal agents carry a woman after they pulled her from her vehicle in Minneapolis, Minn., on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (Tim Evans/Reuters)
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security told The Independent that ICE officers had been in the area to execute an arrest warrant for a 20-year-old man, originally from Ecuador, who they said had entered the U.S. illegally near El Paso, Texas, in 2019.
“As officers carried out their law enforcement duties, significant crowd surrounded them and began impeding law enforcement operations — a federal crime,” the spokesperson told the newspaper.
“One agitator ignored multiple commands by an officer to move her vehicle away from the scene, she was arrested for obstruction. Another agitator assaulted an officer by jumping on his back. Six of these agitators were taken into custody for assaulting law enforcement.”
As the federal law enforcement agency continues its crackdowns in Minneapolis, it’s become common for people to boo, taunt and blow whistles when they spot heavily armed immigration agents passing through in unmarked vehicles or walking the streets.
It’s all part of a grassroots effort to warn neighbours about ICE, confront agents over their actions and remind the government that residents are observing the agents as they execute warrants.
Homeland Security says it has made more than 2,000 arrests in the state since early December.